“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 3 of 709
“Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“We must always attempt to lift as we climb”
“So shines a good deed... in a weary world.”
“Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever.”
“You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.”
“We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.”
“Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light.”
“Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.”
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
“The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.”
“My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older.”
“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
“God made the world with a heart full of love, Then He looked down from Heaven above, And saw that we all need a helping hand, Someone to share with, who'll understand. He made special people to see us through The glad times and the sad times, too; A person on whom we can always depend, Someone we can call a friend. God made friends so we'll carry a part Of His perfect love in all our hearts.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”